"...rendered from all sides by a writer who has eyes in the back of his head."

-- Susan Salter Reynolds, L.A. Times

"An unforgettable reading experience."

--Midwest Book Review

Fifteen-year-old Virgil Foggy is trying to survive on a failing dairy farm in Minnesota. Virgil's mother is pregnant--an unwelcome addition to the family. Virgil's older brother joins the army and goes to war, but warfare is also close to home, much of it between Virgil and his stepfather. The Law of Falling Bodies is a novel about the schizophrenic, ubiquitous, and cyclical nature of all wars within and between men, women, and nations.

"Some scenes are as delicately detailed as Monet paintings, others so powerfully sensual you may experience olfactory hallucinations."

-- Robert Gover, One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding

"On the spectrum between Faulkner's As I Lay Dying and Cormac McCarthy's The Road lies Duff Brenna's The Law of Falling Bodies."

On the road north, Triple E adopts the homeless 14-year-old Mercy Jones. Once in Yukon Territory they themselves are stranded in Whitehorse. There, Triple E locks in mortal struggle with a powerful, half-crazed sourdough named John Brown who mistakes Mercy for his long-lost daughter, Mamie.

Brown kidnaps Mercy to the Tombstone Mountains and the hunted fugitive Triple E, now becomes the hunter, charging into the teeth of Yukon winter to track Brown and Mercy down.

On the surface The Willow Man is the tale of a rugged manhunt. Beneath the surface run deeper currents of courage, devotion, loyalty, love, and a young man's question for personal redemption.

EDGY, QUICK, AND FINELY HONED, THE WILLOW MAN IS A NOVEL OF INCONTESTABLE POWER AND REDEMPTION, STYLISTIC GRACE AND BEAUTY.

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THE ALTAR OF THE BODY, a novel by Duff Brenna

(signed copy of Picador U.S.A. first edition)

ISBN: 0-312-26865-3

Hardbound, 328 pgs. , $30 ($24) 3.50 sh

"Duff Brenna's new novel, The Altar of the Body, is a gift of grace and wit. With elegant precision, Brenna takes us into a world that is part real, part dream, familiar yet always surprising. An unlikely group of people--each buoyed by disparate dreams--struggle to understand what is essential while balancing on the edge of joy and despair. This is a story that transcends the willful obsessions, the relentless self-absorption of contemporary life, that reinvents family, and illuminates what is both painful and best at its heart."

--Claire Davis, Winter Range

George McLeod's easy-going life turns to chaos when his bodybuilder cousin, Buck Root, reappears on his doorstep with his sexy girlfriend, Joy, and her mother, Livia, whose sense of reality blurs into the pages of her favorite western novel. Without protest, George takes this boisterous threesome under his roof secretly nursing a longing for Joy. But when Livia's condition worsens, a long-dormant need for intimacy awakens in George. For the first time, George understands the rage to live life to the fullest--the rage that has consumed Joy, Buck Root and Livia.

With outlandish comedy and tragic grandeur that ranks him among such American luminaries as Sherwood Anderson and Flannery O'Connor, Duff Brenna weaves the story of four people who come together in a cataclysmic moment of truth that tests their compassion and capacity to love.

"From one of our best and most original novelists, Duff Brenna's astonishing new novel, The Altar of the Body, is at once hilarious and profoundly unsettling: it's a sexy, muscled-up page-turner, full of all manner of mayhem and blessed with a wild and utterly unforgettable cast of characters, each of them fiercely and unforgettably alive. It's also a wise and compassionate meditation on youth and beauty, cruelty and courage, love and death--a hymn to our wonderful doomed bodies, our frail and glorious humanity."

--Mick Cochrane, Flesh Wounds and Sport

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CAST UPON THE DAY, stories

Thomas E. Kennedy, with an introduction by

Robert Gover, Hopewell Publications, 2007

ISBN: 978-1-933435-15-2, $15.95

LCN: 2006940975

First Edition trade paperback, 6 X 9, 224 pages

Cover painting by William Skotte Olsen

Meet the characters running round here, eleven of them, each at his bursting point: Jack Lynch, Bill Gurb, Jazz Jastovic, Carlie Feuk, Michey Jung, Thomas Brighton, Fin Finley... With irony and humor, their minds and lives are laid bare for us to follow as one goes mad from the music in his brain, another tears his house down onto his own head, another takes off from the IRS with a bagful of C notes... Enter these pages and join this wild melee. You might meet someone you know. You might even catch a glimpse of yourself.

"Readers can't help but be touched by the clarity and generosity that are the hallmarks of Kennedy's very literary and very human stories."

--Linda Swanson-Davies, Co-editor, Glimmer Train

"Kennedy's latest collection of short stories...does for our time something akin to what Flaubert did for his."

-- Robert Gover, from the introduction

"Cast Upon The Day" is complex and poignant and resonant, full of literary pleasures."